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Title: Bio Diesel
Post by: asprince on January 13, 2013, 12:04:29 pm

I have started making a little biodiesel lately. For years I have been burning straight used vegetable oil in my diesel trucks but now I have graduated to bio. Anyone else going in these directions?


Steve

Title: Re: Bio Diesel
Post by: AllenF on January 13, 2013, 02:42:52 pm

Hard to find used oil.  I do work for a lot of restaurants and they get a check 4 times a year for their old oil.  They lock it up here until the pump truck comes. 

Title: Re: Bio Diesel
Post by: BlueBee on January 14, 2013, 03:46:07 am

I haven’t tried Biodiesel, but I have tried water.  :-D

As in the Stanly Meyer water fuel cell.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer%27s_water_fuel_cell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer%27s_water_fuel_cell)

Title: Re: Bio Diesel
Post by: BMAC on April 01, 2013, 11:45:47 am

I run Biodiesel for a year.  It worked flawlessly.  Then I run out of free veggie oil.  In fact I moved to NY and last time I checked they wanted over 2 bucks a gallon of used veggie oil.  It costs generally around 1.30 per gallon to make bio diesel.  So i stopped making it and went back to the pump.

Good for those that can get their hands on free veggie oil

Title: Re: Bio Diesel
Post by: asprince on April 01, 2013, 09:32:14 pm

I had a contract with the county school system. They generated more than I could use. This year they stopped serving fried foods and now bake everything. My free oil source is about to dry up. It was good while it lasted. ( five years)


Steve

Title: Re: Bio Diesel
Post by: BeeMaster2 on April 01, 2013, 11:53:24 pm

The way our government is going, pretty soon, you won,t be allowed to buy fried foods. So there will not be any vegetable oil available.
Jim

Title: Re: Bio Diesel
Post by: BMAC on April 02, 2013, 09:12:52 am

Jim that is sad, but I think you are correct.

Title: Re: Bio Diesel
Post by: nietssemaj on April 11, 2013, 12:45:58 pm

I had 2 mercedes 300D's running on used vegi. About 2 years ago my free oil disappeared. With the time and labor required to collect the oil it wasn't worth it anymore to pay for the vegi oil.